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Gamification Mechanic Monday: Random rewards If you have ever tried to surprise a friend, family member or person you love with a surprise bunch of flowers or a a gift, then you already fully understand the concept of random rewards. Now, the question is when…
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Gamification Mechanic Monday: Free Lunch In sports tournaments when one of your opponents drops out for whatever reason, injury, illness, or other, players receive a walkover or bye to the next game. When a friend enters a competition and they win a prize for them…
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Gamification Mechanic Monday: Flow One of the most frequently used models relating to gamification and keeping engagement is the concept of flow. Flow can be described as creating enough challenge for the level of skill of a player in order to keep them evolving without…
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Gamification Mechanic Monday: Rolling rewards Rolling rewards unlike fixed rewards have more luck or odds attached to earning them, but the potential win of this reward is substantial enough to draw people into the game and when won to possibly make them a fan for…
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Gamification Mechanic Monday: Dashboard In every game you will find a dashboard, which tracks your activities and progress. In business it is rare to see how we are doing and what the options are. Our progression on a career path is not usually tracked by…
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Gamification Mechanic Monday: Absolute Rankings The top performers in any field will enjoy being listed in rankings when rankings are a clear reflection of performance such as in a sales environment or sports. For top performers this tends to be a motivator when on the…
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Gamification mechanic Monday: Appointment dynamics In multi player online games having to come together at a set time to go and attack a rival tribe is an example of the appointment game dynamic. Usually you rely on everyone to show to have the best potential…
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Gamification Mechanic Monday: To avatar or not to avatar Avatars are often a game mechanic to allow personalisation in a game, you can choose it’s gender in some cases and adapt it’s appearance, from skin and hair colour to dress code typically. When it comes…
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Gamification Mechanic Monday: Aura effect A game technique where the action of one player, has a rub off positive effect on another player by virtue of being around this player or in it’s energy field. This can generate additional points, boosters in terms of skills…
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Gamification Mechanic Monday: Crowd-creation A number of games are built on what the player creates, to name a few Minecraft, Lego, Sim city, Mario creator, etc. In the case of Mario, the came out with a creator kit after their already successful games, where the…
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In games some enemies or objects can be killed or moved, a few however are un-killable and also unmovable. As I was playing the new Mario Run on iPad this weekend, I got grabbed by quite a few moveable enemies, but what usually killed me…
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Hide and seek is probably one of the early games most of us learn when we start going to school. The person trying to find us starts counting and in that time the rest of the players hide themselves as well as they can, only…
